This is a prototype, Apple has it in phone they sell
so they are still ahead.
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Xiaomi Reveals Dual-Folding Flexible Phone in Teaser Video
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so they are still ahead.I don’t know that I would compare a foldable tablet to say a ‘65 inch curved television from Samsung’ as an example. A TV is stationary, a folding tablet is portable. The reason I say that, is that this has the practicality for someone to minimize and maximize the display on demand, where as a TV that’s curved, the only real benefit to appreciate that type of technology, is if you’re sitting relatively close to the display to have the full ‘curved experience’. Not to mention, curved TV’s were priced exorbitantly in addition years back.
apple brought xxx change phone every year, so durability is no matter anymore.
I love the genius 3 fold idea, makes sense!
Seen that, been there. Everyone is making these new foldable screen form factors (Samsung, now Xiaomi). And then, when Apple releases it's take on the subject, suddenly everyone will produce the same form factor as Apple and tell us that it is a "natural choice for design" and there is "no other way to do it". Apple is, in my opinion, already experimenting with foldable screens (the iPhone X and Xs and Xs Max all have a curved OLED portion inside of them). I think they are experimenting with foldable displays. After all, seeing their R&D investment I hope they are experimenting with LOTS of things... Let's see. For the time being, seeing the prototypes, I don't really feel the need for a foldable screen. But, on the other hand, I didn't need the HomePod either and yet I own one...
You can already dynamically increase the size of an iPhone... move it closer to your face ;-)
The horrible rippled mess of these folding screens is just not going to be popular with the general public. What we want is glass that folds without imperfections and that simply doesn't exist.
Look closer at this device and the other prototypes using the same tech, they look terrible. That's not something that can be easily fixed... as it's a physics problem, not a technology issue.
Send them a mail asap! I bet they didn't think about this!
Why is every other company in the Android ecosystem more innovative than Apple? It seems Apple has lost it, they are chasing behind a novelty product that has lost its sheen. iPhones novelty is gone now, we need utility. I suppose i should start preparing for my migration to a decent Android device. No Hope from Apple now!
I bet Apple has loads of tech in the famous pipeline. But, they don't want to spill it all at once. It makes a lot more sense to let it trickle out over the years. That means they can be comfortably ahead in R&D while maximizing profit.
um, so far it‘s just a proof that a flexible oled screen, that the industry is displaying for years now, might also work for phones and totaly makes sense there.
After all, that‘s one reason why they developed it in the first place.
Whether they already have a coating that make it last in your pocket is the question that we should pose right now.
Right now the glass screens on my newer iPhone tend to scratch more easily than in the years before, probably due to the focus on having less shattering and therefor producing a softer/more elastic glass. Can‘t see that trend bringing a good scratch resistance to the shown prototype. Especially on those folded edges, of which this one has two.
Bit afraid of the smartphone folio/sleeve age. The need for a case for the current iphones is already bad enough.
After all, that‘s one reason why they developed it in the first place.
Whether they already have a coating that make it last in your pocket is the question that we should pose right now.
Right now the glass screens on my newer iPhone tend to scratch more easily than in the years before, probably due to the focus on having less shattering and therefor producing a softer/more elastic glass. Can‘t see that trend bringing a good scratch resistance to the shown prototype. Especially on those folded edges, of which this one has two.
Bit afraid of the smartphone folio/sleeve age. The need for a case for the current iphones is already bad enough.
I have zero idea how this is supposed to be courageous.
Of course they know about that, but they don't care how the screen hold up over time. As long as they can sell their flexible phone that does not matter.
Do you use two hands to hold your iPad or use your iPhone? Is it really that troublesome to use both your hands to unfold this? I doubt it is.
you are assuming that apple still is in the lead of anything ... apple is a bean counter company now. no sex left - they have no lead of anything. asia will take over the phone business, as samsung has done with the s8 - for some strange reason apple can still use their brand power to push people in inferior technology. that is no sustainable business model.
look what they have done to the mac and iphone, completely wracked devices - glued together electronic waste!
airpods are a real surprise, no idea how that happend to be honest!
homepod is a waste, no headphone jack and no bluetooth - i mean this is a device which is stationary, no movement - so why the heck i am not allowed to wire it? and why the heck it has no portability as all the other speakers, meanwhile.
i am sad, that i like macos, i dont like ios anymore which is a cheap rip off of the mac. if not for mac os i would not use a mac !!! and i only use an iphone because i have it - any foldable phone will make me leave apple - first time since long , am thrilled for a new phone - its fun !!!
May be the future, may not be. Still seems to be a bit like a clever gimmick more than anything. I'm sure that Apple have been developing ideas for such tech for years, but they have no need to release 'teasers' to up their market share. They tend to work out all the kinks and perfect it before they release anything. Personally I'm not convinced these are the 'future' with the inherent issues of constant folding.
They may have developed an elastomer that stretches and shrinks without any noticeable effects. It _is_ possible.
I will bet Apple is four years behind in this technology! The natural innovative follower to Jobs was Forstall. Cook fired his path to a continued successful Apple for the next 30 years. Remember Nokia? Depending on iPhone is not good enough! Augmented reality is great, but until it’s seemless and built into contact lenses it will not have the mass adoption rate Apple needs.
Where else is Apple’s innovation going to come from? I am in Asia, and I can tell you that Apple has its ecosystem and NOTHING else. There is absolutely no way Apple can withhold its market share with iPhone by simply raising prices and put a fairly ridiculous notch with some 3D camera equipment in it! The stuff in Asia was obviously originally copied from Apple... but, Apple did nothing to keep innovating once Jobs died. It fired the only person who had the balls to innovate. It was just skeuomorphism or Apple Maps as to why he was fired. TC had a real threat behind him in Forstall.
I really love using iOS on my iPhone. But iOS on an $1800 iPad Pro is absurd and the CPU is simply wasted.
The hardware, other than the CPU, which should be running Macs, is so far behind competitors. The notch is such a joke. It looks so very stupid.
Samsung Galaxy phones are beautiful and don’t have a notch. And the hole punch is simply beautiful in comparison to the huge notch.
Huawei is going to blow past all these companies with phones and tablets.
I bought the Samsung Galaxy’s Tab S4. The OLED display is beautiful, and watching a movie on the 10.1” OLED display gives me almost the exact same movie size as the 12.9” Apple old outdated “retina” LCD. Who cares about the curve around the corners???
The iPad is a complete waste. I ridiculously bought the most expensive model thinking I would use the Cellular in it for movies, but I am addicted to the OLED display in my Samsung Galaxy Tab S4.
I am an Apple fanboy, but Apple needs a new generation of leaders who are younger and can make great decisions about technology... and where the future is truly headed. When Apple originally designed the iPad, Jobs decided it would be great as a phone!!! Why didn’t Apple also take that lead and start making the technology to make it into an iPad that folds into an IPhone? And glasses that see AR in real time, and work on the contacts instead of waiting for universities to discover the technology then steal it from them and pay a $400M lawsuit five years down the road...
They are at least four years behind because Apple doesn’t have a leader at the helm. And iPhone is not the future... iOS in AR is the future. MacOS and I will call it AiOS advanced iOS, should be running on every iPad and Mac. And on and on...
Apple cannot sell enough AirPods to make up for the loss of iPhone sales revenues. Apple cannot sell enough apps without selling more iPhones to grow its services. There is where Microsoft and Amazon are also kicking Apple’s a$$!!!
End of rant...
Where else is Apple’s innovation going to come from? I am in Asia, and I can tell you that Apple has its ecosystem and NOTHING else. There is absolutely no way Apple can withhold its market share with iPhone by simply raising prices and put a fairly ridiculous notch with some 3D camera equipment in it! The stuff in Asia was obviously originally copied from Apple... but, Apple did nothing to keep innovating once Jobs died. It fired the only person who had the balls to innovate. It was just skeuomorphism or Apple Maps as to why he was fired. TC had a real threat behind him in Forstall.
I really love using iOS on my iPhone. But iOS on an $1800 iPad Pro is absurd and the CPU is simply wasted.
The hardware, other than the CPU, which should be running Macs, is so far behind competitors. The notch is such a joke. It looks so very stupid.
Samsung Galaxy phones are beautiful and don’t have a notch. And the hole punch is simply beautiful in comparison to the huge notch.
Huawei is going to blow past all these companies with phones and tablets.
I bought the Samsung Galaxy’s Tab S4. The OLED display is beautiful, and watching a movie on the 10.1” OLED display gives me almost the exact same movie size as the 12.9” Apple old outdated “retina” LCD. Who cares about the curve around the corners???
The iPad is a complete waste. I ridiculously bought the most expensive model thinking I would use the Cellular in it for movies, but I am addicted to the OLED display in my Samsung Galaxy Tab S4.
I am an Apple fanboy, but Apple needs a new generation of leaders who are younger and can make great decisions about technology... and where the future is truly headed. When Apple originally designed the iPad, Jobs decided it would be great as a phone!!! Why didn’t Apple also take that lead and start making the technology to make it into an iPad that folds into an IPhone? And glasses that see AR in real time, and work on the contacts instead of waiting for universities to discover the technology then steal it from them and pay a $400M lawsuit five years down the road...
They are at least four years behind because Apple doesn’t have a leader at the helm. And iPhone is not the future... iOS in AR is the future. MacOS and I will call it AiOS advanced iOS, should be running on every iPad and Mac. And on and on...
Apple cannot sell enough AirPods to make up for the loss of iPhone sales revenues. Apple cannot sell enough apps without selling more iPhones to grow its services. There is where Microsoft and Amazon are also kicking Apple’s a$$!!!
End of rant...
I'm sure there's no point in responding, but your narrow view is where your argument falls apart. Apple has transformed into a services business, and it's a model that's working very well for them. Pure unit volume is meaningless if the profit is not there. And we all know that Apple is the king of profit regardless of volume. That's working very well for them.
Inferior technology? Yah, try again on that one. The number of apps available does not make a platform better.